Curriculum Guidelines for Homeschooling 1st Grade

By Alicia

This article will give you a list of concepts and topics that 1st graders should have grasped by the end of the year. This will aid you in deciding if your child should move on to 2nd grade, do a little summer work, or repeat the grade.

Four Basic Subjects

There are four basic subjects that students must have a grasp on in order to graduate to the next class level. They are Math, Language Arts, Science, and History. I also teach Bible, but it's grades have no effect on whether my child moves up to the next grade or not. Here are the guidelines you can use to decide if your first grader is ready to move on to second grade.

Math

Add and subtract up to the number 25.

Complete word problems that require you to add and subtract up to 25.

Understand what estimate means and be able to estimate simple numbers.

Identify quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies and begin to be able to add them in combinations up to $.25.

Understand whole, half, one third, and one fourth by shading in circles, squares, and rectangles.

Have a grasp on shapes and then begin to understand three dimensional shapes such as cones, cubes, and spheres.